Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought before a court of pardons. When the government ordered the army to postpone Michael's execution, the military governor of Athens resigned his post in protest. Almost overnight the news reached the northern fron tier. Through the thin cold air of the mountains the loudspeakers of General Markos jeered triumphantly at the government troops: "You see, there is one law for the rich, another for the poor. They executed others for the same thing-but not wealthy Mr. Chryssicopoulos...
...Wily old General Ibañez, a 1927-vintage dictator, claimed that he had tried to dissuade the plotters, but nobody believed him. Vergara would not talk. A sergeant uncovered one factor with the naive testimony: "I thought the movement was only aimed to raise...
...most damaging evidence was given by Carabinero (security police) General Manuel Alvear, who said that Argentine Consul Luis Zervino had warned him that Chile's situation was grave, that it could be mended only by a military government on the Argentine model. Zervino had told him that a revolutionary movement was under way and advised him to get on the bandwagon. Zervino had also said that the revolt might be headed by Ibañez or by General Jorge Berguno (now in Buenos Aires, a fugitive from Chilean justice...
...Dwight D. Eisenhowers (transfers from Washington) turned up in the new edition of the New York Social Register, along with Mrs. Winthrop ("Bobo") Rockefeller. But a new edition of a Columbia University faculty cookbook, published the same day, showed that General Ike had not lost the common touch. It contained his folksy, first-person, column-long recipe for vegetable soup, (sample subtlety: "Take a few nasturtium stems, cut them up in small pieces, boil them separately . . . and add about a tablespoon of them...
Pearson also counts on the common failing of Congressmen: they can't help talking. "I often tell a friend or two to keep their ears open at a closed-door meeting," says Pearson. During the war, the Merry-Go-Round spilled the news that F.D.R. had irritably snubbed General de Gaulle. "One of the Congressmen who heard it took a few notes," Pearson recalls...